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E. GOODALL.

GHEGK, DRAFT, 0R MONEY ORDER. No. 373,734. Panneau Nov. 22, 1887.

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UNITED STATES EDWIN GOODALL, OF NEIN YORK, N. Y.

CHECK, DRAFT, on MONEY-ORDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 373,734, dated November22, 1887.

Application iled May 10, 1887.

To a-Z whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN GooDALL, a eitzen ofthe United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented new and useful Improve ments in Checks, Drafts, orMoney0rders, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in checks or drafts for exchangeor transfer of money, the object of which is to prevent the amountoriginally placed on the check or draft from being altered, all of whichwill be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claim.I

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, theseveral columns of iigures and numbers ou the left-hand side, togetherwith the maximum denomination of fifty dollars and the three asterisksin the panel at the top extending across those columns, are son arrangedrelative to each other that when the specified amount of dollars andcents has been indicated on the several columns the remaining part ofeach column is to be torn or cut away, so that there is no possibilitythat the numbers can be raised to a larger sum without immediatedetection.

In the drawing, which represents a check for the sum ot' thirty-five 35%dollars, A' is a panel having within it three asterisks, a b o. (Lrepresents cents, Z1 represents units, and c represents tens, and, asshown, the corresponding gures indicate each of thesemviz., 3 for tens,5 for units, and 25 for cents, placed at c b a, correspondingly. Theamount ofthe check to be paid is thirty-ive dollars and twenty-fivecents.

The four horizontal divisions represented at B have in them the figuresl, 2, 3, Ll, and the rect-angular space C to their right has in it thelarge cipher l), which is common to these iigures, as l and O reads tendollars, 2 and O reads twenty dollars, Sac. At D, immediately below thenumbers l, 2, 3, 4, is a column in which is printed the highest amountfor which the check or draft can be issued, and when so issued of courseno raising can be done. At E, below the cipher, are the printed numbersfrom l to 9, included,whi'ch represent only units of dollars, as onedollar, Snc. The blank column F to the right is for inserting in ink theamount of cents, as 25, (seen atj`,) which will be written opposite theunit indicated in column E. rIhe dotted line commencing at the bottom ofcolumn E to the right of 9, extending up to 5, thence below it to thedivision-line between E and D, and thence along this line up tothe linebetween 3 and 4 in B to the exterior lineis de signed to show the linesof cutting to sever the checki'ortheparticularamountthereof. lVhen thepart thus described shall have been separated from the body of thecheck, it will be observed that the h'gures 3 in B and 5 in Eare thehighest numbers remaining and signify thirtyfive dollars, the 25 forcents being written in F. These correspond with the igures 3, 5,25 onthe asterisks in the panel A at the top. There is no place whatever inthe remaining part where raised numbers can be attached by insertion.

Foramounts less than tensas, for instance, for five dollars-,the lineol" the cut must be continued along the division-line between E and Dall the way up between the asterisks c and Zi, so that no tens can beadded to the five.

The part lettered H is the remitters receipt, to be retained by theremitter or person buying the check or draft, as is usual in suchtransactions, and G is the body of the check, draft, or money-order,which parts are not new nor claimed by me; and I do not claim, broadly,the use of columns of iignres, some parts of which are to be severedfrom the main check, having theproper amountspecifed in the body of thecheek, but

What I claim :is--

A check, draft, or money-order provided with the columns B E F, and apanel, A, with asterisks a b @,arranged immediately above the columns,and having printed in column B the figures l, 2, 3, 4, representingtens, and in letters below these the maximum amount, in column E a zero,and below this zero printed units from l to 9, included, the column Fbeing blank for writing in ink the amount of cents opposite to the unitfigure of the check.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I hereto affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses. l

EDVIN GOODALL.

Witnesses:

J. M. YZNAGA, W. C. DUFF.

